{"id":340918,"date":"2017-12-24T12:58:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T11:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/more-than-just-one-train-wreck\/"},"modified":"2017-12-24T12:58:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T11:58:44","slug":"more-than-just-one-train-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/more-than-just-one-train-wreck\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than Just One Train Wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_98481\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98481\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-21-at-4.55.16-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"364\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Tony Alter | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On the same day President Trump delivered a solemn address presenting his administration\u2019s report to Congress on the threats to the national security of the United States, an Amtrak train jumped off the tracks on a new route from Seattle, Washington, to Portland, Oregon, killing at least 3 people and injuring about 100 others. While the damage caused by the train wreck cannot be compared to a possible nuclear attack by North Korea or how China and Russia \u201cseek to challenge American influence, values and wealth,\u201d according to the report, there is a relationship between viewing national security as tied to foreign intervention and the failure of domestic policies.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump\u2019s presentation of the required report followed his campaign\u2019s vision of a binary world of us against them. The document argued that \u201cgreat power competition returned,\u201d specifying that Russia and China \u201care determined to make economies less free and less fair, to grow their militaries, and to control information and data to repress their societies and expand their influence.\u201d In response to these threats, the report said, the government must put \u201cAmerica First\u201d by canceling unfair trade agreements and rebuilding the military.<\/p>\n<p>In the context of the document\u2019s perceived return to great power competition, President Trump announced that \u201cAmerica is in the game, and America is going to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All of this we have heard before. In the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/12\/22\/more-than-just-one-train-wreck\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Tony Alter | CC BY 2.0 On the same day President Trump delivered a solemn address presenting his administration\u2019s report to Congress on the threats to the national security of the United States, an Amtrak train jumped off the tracks on a new route from Seattle, Washington, to Portland, Oregon, killing at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-340918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}